How to send password for new joinee by using flow designer?
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Thursday
Hi,
How I can send password for new joinee by using flow designer?
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards,
Juganta
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Thursday - last edited Thursday
Hi @jugantanayak,
can you provide more details? Password to the instance?
It depends. For example PROD environment is usually accessed via SSO, so no password for ServiceNow is needed, but it requires some user provisioning (Workday, Google, LDAP, ...).
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But if you want to send a password to your users, there are million of ways how to do it... you can do it by triggering an event, trigger a submission of catalog item, then you can send it as a standard notification (optionally using notification email script) or you can send an email directly from the Flow designer, there's an action for that.
How would that be? When do you know when to send it and to whom? Something like "manager submits a form on the portal, inserts the name and based on this value it can be sent" or "monthly or manual execution"...How? 😛
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yesterday
Hi @jugantanayak, Please refer to the detailed solution provided by Medi C in this thread:
Hope this helps!
Muhammad Iftikhar
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yesterday
what's your actual business requirement?
Users in instance are usually provisioned via AD or via SSO
Ankur
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yesterday
- Set Password action exists but doesn't have "Generate password and notify user" checkbox
- Flow Designer cannot access or send passwords directly
- The correct approach uses Ask For Password Reset action
Solution:
In Flow Designer, add the action:
Action: Ask For Password Reset Table: User [sys_user] User: Select the new user record
This action triggers ServiceNow's native password reset flow, which sends the new user a secure email with a link to set their password. No password is exposed or transmitted - the user creates their own password through the secure reset link.
